“I would suspect depending on what the manager comes up with that it would have some implications that we lay some people off,” Norton said.

Public hearings are set for 9 a.m. July 25 and Aug. 14 in the commission chambers on the third floor of the courthouse, 525 N. Main. The county is slated to set next year’s budget during the commission’s Aug. 15 meeting at 9 a.m.